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What concerns me most and makes me awake in sweat and screams in the middle of each night is that the Gentoo developers are getting less and less - another 10 people have left Gentoo. Is Gentoo dying? I HOPE NOT!!! 'Cause it's the best distro available, you know...

I must say I am worried to see Chris Gianelloni leave. Afaik I know he handled lots of important stuff in Gentoo (rel-eng, genkernel, etc.). Anyone knows the reasons why he left? Who will replace him?_________________Please add [solved] to the initial post's subject line if you feel your problem is resolved. Help answer the unanswered

Looking at the list of developers at Gentoo's homepage I can only conclude that we are in shortage of devs

I see no devs for crucial packages like genkernel, openrc, baselayout. Important packages like Gnome have only one maintainer. Moreover the dev list contains lots of developers that are away for an unknown amount of time.

Taking all these factors into account I do think Gentoo's main focus right now should be to attract talented devs for crucial projects like genkernel, catalyst, baselayout etc._________________Please add [solved] to the initial post's subject line if you feel your problem is resolved. Help answer the unanswered

genkernel is probably maintained by the kernel project (it has no specific herd) - it looks like wolf31o2 (Chris Hianelloni) is continuing development outside of Gentoo.

baselayout is managed by the base-system project. I could be wrong, but I believe Roy also still keeps a hand in this.

If you want to find out who manages a given package, you can check the Metadata.xml file found in the the packages directory in the main repository. If that has no specific herd, check the changelog for who's been updating it recently.

The fact that they were retired because thay have been long inactive only makes things worse since they actually stop contributing sooner and are yet to be replaced. This hints that more devs are likely to be retired, looking at the dev list does not help considering the number of Away tags (40 if I counted right).

nightmorph wrote:

agaffney has stepped up as head of releng.

Tough. I'd hoped that the next release would be free of that broken installer. Very unlikely.

If you liked a certain article or felt that the GMN was published with something that we could do without, let us know. You can also put your comments and suggestions on how you think the next GMN should be.

First of all, as it's my first time to say something about GMN, I like the monthly newsletter, especially the "Tips and Tricks" section, also all the graphs and statistics.

One thing, I've been severly missing in GMN, is to hear something official about KDE4(.1/.2). I hope, this thread is the correct place to say this.